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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 113, 12 September 1902, Page 3

deuce- to* this effect,, or who have been pi-onoHdicedt fit subjects for an Invaliding Board* by the medical officer in charrgeofi the-returning ship, or a certificate- from- a- medical officer in South Aft •icat.

(6); A member of any Contingent within, siau months of his landing in Ne-vv Zealand can go to any medical man* to be examined and pay f>r Mich If the doctor certifies he is in such a state as the result of Active Service that a Medical Board is advisable, the Officer Commanding the District will send the man before a Medical Board. Men receiving the above certificates from a doctor will at once report themselves xx> Captain Deck between the hours of 9 a.m. and noon and 1 p.m. and 5 p.m! daily.

(c) A Medical Board is empowered to grant leave up to six months, and a Government Medical Officer or Volunteer Medical Staff Officer can recommend an invalid for re-examination on expiration of his original leave. ( d ) Should Medical Boards, Government Medical Officers, or VolunteerMedical Staff Officers, as the case may be, consider that a returned trooper is entitled in the first case to more than six months leave, in the second case to more than two months’ leave, they should state so on the Medical Board in the proper place, and recommend them for re-examination on the expiration ot their leave.

( e ). All Medical Boards must Vie made out on the prescribe!! forms, and, when a full Medical Board cannot assemble, one authorised Government Medical Officer, and when such an officer is not available one officer of Volunteer Medical Staff’, will lie held t > c institute a B >ard, having power to grant leave up to two months. Proceedings to be forwarded without delay through Officei Commanding District.

(/). E ther Medical Boards, Government Medical Officers, - «»r- Volunteer Medical Staff’ Officers may recommend returned troopers for treatment at Government Sanatoriuuis at either Hamuer or R itorua. When it is consistent with the state of health of the man, R itorua should be recommended f >i- men residing in the North Island, and Hamner for the men residing in the South Island.

(g). When either the Board, Government Medical Offieei, or Volunteer Medical Staff’ Officer considers the injury to the man to he ot* a permanent nature, or equivalent to the loss of a limb, under the provisions of “The Military Pensions Extension to Contingents Act, 1900,” they should reemi mend him to be sent before a Pensions Board. (i). When either a Board, Government Medical Officer, or Volunteer Medical Staff’ Officer considers that in addition to sick-leave, the men should iiave-free medical treatment, it must he di>tinctly so stated on the Board, and where it is possible, and consistent with the man's illness he should be sent to a Government Hospital, in preference ti receiving outdoor treatment. Where it is considered necessary for him to have outdoor treatment, full particulars of what treatment is necessary, and the length of time such treatment should extend Kver, must be distinctly stated. By order. H. W. KIERNAN, Cantain and Acting District Adjutant.